If you haven’t heard of this book, then you’ve either been in a coma for the last month or you spend more time having fun offline than online (good for you!). I can’t say that this book is the source of my current viewpoint or frustrations or of really anything. The fact is, I have been feeling like a deferred-life slave for a couple of years now. This book has given me some vocabulary and mindsets to work with, but I have known about these strategies for quite some time.

What this book has done for me is give me a kick in the pants to get going on some things that have been in the planning stage for a loooong time. I turn 34 in a less than a month, and I am far short of where I’d hoped to be at this point in my life. While I have never planned on retiring early (or otherwise), I do have some goals that require more time than my current lifestyle affords.

I am going to create a few posts out of the material in this book. I have implemented a few of the techniques and tips with (to me) pretty amazing early success, and gained a few hours a week in the process. For now, I would suggest you go buy The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich and get started on reading it. If you are “web worker” or just need some new ideas on strategies for what Tim Ferriss calls “Lifestyle Design”, you need this book.

It isn’t gospel, but it can be useful and eye opening if you can creatively conceive an implementation in your own life.